WASHINGTON (AP)  Climate change is suddenly a hot topic again. The issue is resurfacing in talks about a once radical idea: a possible carbon tax.

The idea was considered so radical that in 2009, when President Barack Obama tried to pass a bill on global warming, that he instead opted for the more moderate approach of capping power plant emissions and trading credits that allowed utilities to pollute more. That idea, after passing the House, stalled in the Senate in 2010 and has been considered dead since.

Democrat Senators can pass it now. Let ‘er rip!! Republicans, vote “present”. Let them own it. Global “warming” usually works out to where whenever those pushing it are followed by BLIZZARDS everywhere they go. Us “evil rich Republicans” should follow their “global warming” spokesmen with “Blizzard Demonstrations” whenever they fly into town on a jet plane for one of their summits.

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posted on 11/13/2012 4:42:54 PM PST
by Twinkie
(Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)

Yes; I suppose they would have to pass it again in the House. It’s junk science that does not warrant regulations and taxes that businesses and people cannot afford. - Just because the Liberal Democrat Socialists WANT global warming to be true doesn’t make it true. A “pass it just to be on the safe side” argument doesn’t cut it. -

Now, though, it will be “the eevilll Republicans” want to poison your air and water and melt the Polar ice caps and kill all the polar bears” rant over and over.

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posted on 11/13/2012 6:20:38 PM PST
by Twinkie
(Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.)

Unless the global socialists can produce the coin operated thermostat that controls the globe’s weather, they need to sit down and shut up. Algore and his pals are not getting their scam carbon market “commody” based on their scam claim to be able to control the temperature of the earth.

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